25 June 2009
A3P, the Australian plantation products and paper industry lobby group, has welcomed a statement by Tony Burke, the Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry which reconfirms the government’s commitment to ensuring the conservation and sustainable management of Australia’s forests and supporting the industry and jobs into the future.
29 June 2009
Transport Minister Steven Joyce says a proposal to allow road transport operators to carry heavier loads, by permit, on specified routes would create a “win – win” situation for the economy and the travelling public.
03 July 2009
A ceremony in Turangi tomorrow marking the transfer of approximately $450 million in land and cash to eight Central North island Iwi completes of the largest single settlement of historical grievances by the Crown, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Christopher Finlayson said.
08 July 2009
A substantial tax credit for black liquor, a by-product when producing wood pulp, has been a timely injection to the US pulp and paper industry and has changed how many pulpmills have been running their plants the past six months.
09 July 2009
There will be big changes in the New Zealand landscape if the government follows the logical course and uses tree planting to help reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
13 July 2009
Indonesia's forestry ministry has released what are believed to be the world's first set of revenue sharing rules for income derived from a UN-backed scheme called reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, or REDD. The profit-sharing rules will help clear up important questions arising from Indonesia's release in May of the world's first set of formal regulations governing who could carry out a REDD project and in which type of forest.
19 July 2009
Australians' homes can help fight the threat of climate change because the timber in their houses stores lots of carbon, research shows.
26 July 2009
New reports released today on the economic and forestry aspects of climate change policy will help inform Government decisions on New Zealand’s 2020 emissions target and policy on emissions trading, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith says.
28 July 2009
WPI International (WPI) Managing Director David Anderson today told the 65 staff at the Prime Sawmill in Gisborne that the company believed it was no longer possible to keep the mill running in the face of a downturn in international prices and a continued high New Zealand dollar.
